August 3, 2026

Fleischman: Climate Science Not “Settled”–Here’s The Cost To You

By Drew Hayes

It is part of the California political ecosystem that we need to make every effort to stop the coming climate change heatwave (or is it the coming ice-age?) and we need to spend untold dollars to do it.  Jon Fleischman, writing on his great “So, Does It Matter?”on  Substack, and the California Post, that we, as taxpayers, are due an accounting of where the money goes–and if anything has been accomplished. He brings the receipts: 

“Nobody ser­i­ously ques­tions that car­bon diox­ide affects the cli­mate. What’s actu­ally in dis­pute is whether that fact jus­ti­fies every tax, fee, man­date and restric­tion Cali­for­nia politi­cians have bolted onto it. For too long, Sac­ra­mento has assumed the answer is yes, without ever hav­ing to prove it. That fail­ure isn’t a reason for more time. It’s a reason to start wind­ing this down.”

Read this–it will make you smarter. 

Read Jon Fleischman’s piece here.

About the Author

Drew Hayes
Chief Content Officer